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    <div class="refentry" id="eglInitialize">
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        <h2>Name</h2>
        <p>eglInitialize — 
            initialize an <abbr class="acronym">EGL</abbr> display connection
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        <h2>C Specification</h2>
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                <code class="funcdef">EGLBoolean <strong class="fsfunc">eglInitialize</strong>(</code>
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              <td>EGLDisplay <var class="pdparam">display</var>, </td>
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              <td> </td>
              <td>EGLint * <var class="pdparam">major</var>, </td>
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              <td> </td>
              <td>EGLint * <var class="pdparam">minor</var><code>)</code>;</td>
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        <h2>Parameters</h2>
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                <em class="parameter">
                  <code>display</code>
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              <p>
                        Specifies the EGL display connection to initialize.
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            <dt>
              <span class="term">
                <em class="parameter">
                  <code>major</code>
                </em>
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            <dd>
              <p>
                        Returns the major version number of the EGL implementation.
                        May be <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
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              <span class="term">
                <em class="parameter">
                  <code>minor</code>
                </em>
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            <dd>
              <p>
                        Returns the minor version number of the EGL implementation.
                        May be <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
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        <h2>Description</h2>
        <p>
            <code class="function">eglInitialize</code> initialized the EGL display
            connection obtained with
            <a class="citerefentry" href="eglGetDisplay.xhtml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglGetDisplay</span></span></a>.
            Initializing an already initialized EGL display connection has no
            effect besides returning the version numbers.
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            <em class="parameter"><code>major</code></em> and <em class="parameter"><code>minor</code></em>
            do not return values if they are specified as <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
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        <p>
            Use <a class="citerefentry" href="eglTerminate.xhtml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglTerminate</span></span></a>
            to release resources associated with an EGL display connection.
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        <h2>Errors</h2>
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            <code class="constant">EGL_FALSE</code> is returned if
            <code class="function">eglInitialize</code> fails,
            <code class="constant">EGL_TRUE</code> otherwise.
            <em class="parameter"><code>major</code></em> and <em class="parameter"><code>minor</code></em> are not
            modified when <code class="constant">EGL_FALSE</code> is returned.
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            <code class="constant">EGL_BAD_DISPLAY</code> is generated if
            <em class="parameter"><code>display</code></em> is not an EGL display connection.
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            <code class="constant">EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED</code> is generated if
            <em class="parameter"><code>display</code></em> cannot be initialized.
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      <div class="refsect1" id="seealso">
        <h2>See Also</h2>
        <p>
            <a class="citerefentry" href="eglGetDisplay.xhtml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglGetDisplay</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="eglTerminate.xhtml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">eglTerminate</span></span></a>
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